It's Friday the 13th, and for that, we have a little nightmare before Yule: a list of the top 5 Yule song earworms!
When Yule is close, many classic Yule songs start playing here and there. They can get you in the mood quite nicely, but some are also pretty catchy. I myself am very prone to get earworms stuck in my head for long periods of time. My fellow LOTRO players have also noted this, and they do their best playing earworms non-stop at our Brandy Badgers rehearsals in LOTRO. The primetime for earworms is actually the summer, when many new and very catchy hits wriggle their way up the earworm charts. However, Yule seems to be another time when the earworms wake up again and spawn here and there.
I wanted to share you the Yule songs that are high on my Yule earworm list. I don’t mean that I wouldn’t like these songs – I am just saying that they have a high tendency to get stuck in my head when I hear them.
There is one Yule song that I have left out. You probably can guess which one it is: the one that many people avoid from 1st to 24th December, so that they don’t get whammed.
What Yule songs get stuck in your head? Please share in the comments!
Top 5 Yule Earworms
by Pycella
5 – Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer tells us the familiar tale of a reindeer who lights up Santa’s path in the dark winter night. It bears a lovely message, but it also has a very catchy melody, and it deserves to lead the way towards the other earworms in this list.
Dean Martin - Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
4 – Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad is a merry Yule song by José Feliciano. He wrote it while feeling homesick on Yule, and recording the song took only ten minutes, according to him. A simple song like this is guaranteed to become a world-wide success and a persistent earworm.
José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
3 – Jingle Bells
This long-lasting classic dates back to the mid 19th century. It’s original title was “The One Horse Open Sleigh”, and it wasn’t originally a Yule song, but it has become one that you can’t avoid at all… even if your high up in the orbit! In all it’s simplicity, it will probably outlast everything else on this planet.
Frank Sinatra - Jingle Bells
2 – Must Be Santa
Even if this one is not as old as Jingle Bells, as an earworm, it ranks higher in my personal list. Originally performed in 1960 by Mitch Miller, this is a cumulative earworm that lists all possible imaginable features of Santa Claus so that everyone would recognize the merry fellow on Yule. Singing this song certainly is a good memory practice, and the ever-so-catchy melody will stick in your head even after dementia has kicked in and when you are as old as Santa himself.
1 – All I Want for Christmas
I decided that putting Last Christmas on this list would not work, as many people are trying their best to avoid that song as a part of a light-hearted Christmas survival game, Whamageddon. But there is another earworm on par with that Yule song: Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas. By now, there is probably no person on earth who would not know what Mariah would like to have for Yule – which is, she wants you to have this song haunting your ears for all Yuletide. In my household, the younger generation is making sure that I hear this song all year around, in addition to Never Gonna Give You Up. Congratulations to Mariah Carey who is never gonna give up the merry Yule spirit, singing this immortal song forever, in your ears and elsewhere.
Of course, there are plenty of other Yule earworms that could have made to the top five. But I did not want to be too greedy, so I left the rest for you to add in the comment section. What seasonal songs get stuck in your head?
(Ever-so-reliable source for the song backgrounds: Wikipedia)
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